Eurymetra angolensis Hoberlandt, 1951

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 866-867

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Eurymetra angolensis Hoberlandt, 1951a: 10–14 , Figs 6–12 (original description).

Seven paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘16.I.48 Kamassangu [hw] / – Dundo, Angola / A. B. Machado lgt [p] // Angola [p] No. 333.4 [hw] / A. B. Machado lgt. [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Eurymetra / angolensis / sp. n. f. apt.J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 13 331 [hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘16.I.48 Kamassangu [hw] / – Dundo, Angola / A. B. Machado lgt [p] // Ang. [p] No. 333.4 [hw] / coll.A.B.Machado [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Eurymetra / angolensis / sp. n. f. apt. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 13 330 [hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPE (♀ macr.): ‘2.II.48 Tshikapa [hw] / Dundo, Angola / A. B. Machado lg. [p] // Ang. [p] No. 354.8 [hw] / coll.A.B.Machado [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Eurymetra / angolensis / sp. n. f. macr. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 13 336 [hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPES (2 ♀♀ apter.): ‘16.I.48 Kamassangu [hw] / – Dundo, Angola / A. B. Machado lgt. // Angola [p] No. 333.4 [hw] / A B Machado lgt // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Eurymetra / angolensis / sp. n. f. apt.

♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 13 333, 13 335 [respectively; hw, orange label] ’.

PARATYPES (2 ♀♀ apter.): ‘16.I.48 Kamassangu [hw] / – Dundo, Angola / A. B. Machado lgt // Ang. [p] No. 333.4 [hw] / coll.A.B.Machado [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Eurymetra / angolensis / sp. n. f. apt. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]50 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 13 332, 13 334 [respectively; hw, orange label]’.

Note. Collection also includes three separate slides containing dissected legs and male genitalia originating from an additional paratype (Slide Box 4).

Current status. Valid subspecies: Eurymetra natalensis angolensis (see POISSON 1965b; LINNAVUORI 1971, 1981).

References

HOBERLANDT L. 1951 a: Semiaquatic Heteroptera collected in Lunda, North East Angola (Portuguese West Africa) by Dr A. de Barros Machado in 1946 - 1949. Publicacoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 10 (1950): 7 - 50.

LINNAVUORI R. 1971: Hemiptera of the Sudan, with remarks on some species of the adjacent countries. 1. The aquatic and subaquatic families. Annales Zoologici Fennici 8: 340 - 366.

LINNAVUORI R. 1981: Hemiptera of Nigeria, with remarks on some species of the adjacent countries. 1. The aquatic and subaquatic families, Saldidae and Leptopodidae. Acta Entomologica Fennici 37: 1 - 39.

POISSON R. A. 1965 b: Catalogue des Insectes Heteropteres Gerridae Leach, 1807, africano-malgaches. Bulletin de l'Institut Francaise d'Afrique Noire, Serie A 27: 1466 - 1503.